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[zunge]

okay I'm bored

who has tattoos or piercings? what kind? of those that don't, what would you get? what about scarification or branding?

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[zunge]

more piercings is always good. plenty of good spots to get one.

[burningfree]

Honestly my main concern now is risk of infection if I do get any new ones. Wasn't a problem for me before.

[zunge]

the aftercare is usually pretty easy. add in the possibility of using healing magic here and it's not that big a concern.

[burningfree]

Hah. Good point. I didn't consider the fact I could just have someone literally kiss it better.

[zunge]

I know, right?

what other piercings have you thought about?

[burningfree]

Some upper cartilage piercings for sure, maybe a brow piercing, maybe a tongue piercing.

[Of course it'd take a special kind of kiss to heal that piercing.]

[zunge]

Those are all good. Tongue heals fastest naturally, brow also kinda fast. Cartilage ones vary wildly.

[burningfree]

You seem knowledgeable about them. Do you just have a lot of piercings or do you also give piercings as well?

[zunge]

I have a lot. I did most myself. I've pierced others but only a few times.

[burningfree]

I only did the one myself around ten years ago. The earring is made of obsidian I forged myself.

What kinds do you have?

[zunge]

Obsidian's some black rock, right?

Enough different kinds that I don't feel like listing them all out.

[burningfree]

It's volcanic rock. Thirty years ago a lot of volcanoes cropped up all over the world - and I have kind of a personal association with them.

Hah, fair enough. What about tattoos, then?

[zunge]

no tattoos yet.

[burningfree]

Yet? So you're considering them?

[zunge]

that's right. the physical experience of getting one interests me. just haven't found artwork that appealed yet.

[burningfree]

That's unique.

Most people don't get tattoos for the experience of feeling one. I'd argue, in fact, most people find that to be the one downside to getting a tattoo.

[zunge]

I'm not most people, and people are weird.

[burningfree]

Are you referring to 'most people' when you say people are weird, or yourself? 😉

In all seriousness, what about the sensation makes you curious?

[zunge]

Both. For different reasons.

[burningfree]

Fair enough. I can't say I don't also fit the bill.

This place also seems to attract weird people. I think I've only met a single normal person in all my time here.

private

[zunge]

[Before responding to that other question, though, he quickly changes the settings to offer some privacy. Just because he's willing to answer doesn't mean he wants everyone to see it.]

It's a common experience where someone willingly puts themself through pain, sometimes for hours at a time. It's a lot of needle punctures just in the span of a minute, an hour...

[burningfree]

[Huh. That definitely wasn't the response Lio was expecting. He'd met plenty of figurative masochists in his time on earth - one could argue he was one, given how much he was willing to put himself through with no complaint. He couldn't say he'd ever met a literal one, though.]

You enjoy that kind of feeling, then?

I don't know if I can relate. I've experienced physical pain before on such a level that I'm fairly certain even if I never felt pain again, it'd be all too soon.

[zunge]

Just curious what it'd feel like. With tattoos, I've read that the pain level varies between body parts. Some barely hurt; some hurt a lot.

That sounds like some pretty extreme pain you must have endured. Never feeling any pain again at all wouldn't be good, though.

[burningfree]

I've heard that too. Not sure where it's supposed to hurt more, though.

That's poetic, but I doubt you'd be saying that if you'd felt what I felt.

[zunge]

People have made charts, like the ones here.

Hmmm. I'd still say it. The reason I do is private.